Carla Rossi's Purity Ball

Drag queen Courtney Act (say it like you're Australian...there you go) won Australian Idol, not to mention the heart of Chaz Bono on RuPaul's Drag Race. Now she's showing Portland some real gender illusion—let's face it, Carla Rossi's chest hair gives her away. Among the openers is bearded drag queen Bulimianne Rhapsody of Austin, whom fans of drag troupe Sissyboy might remember performed at Sissyboy's first drag show in 2004. She went on to start Austin's own drag troupe, Poo Poo Platter. Expect Bulimianne to insult Mormons and Courtney to fail at using a straw.

Ecologically themed art tends to be dull and sanctimonious, but not so in the hands of Wesley Younie. His idylls of environmental paradise lost abound with equal parts whimsy and intelligence. In the ...